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Madison Treece

Art history professor

Education

  • M.A., art history and museum studies, Tufts University
  • M.A., visual studies, University of California - Santa Cruz
  • B.A., art history, University of California Santa Barbara

Credentials

Academic experience

  • Professor of art history, Fall 2023–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Associate instructor, history of art and visual culture, 2019–20, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
  • Teaching assistant, history of art and visual culture, 2017–23, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
  • Teaching assistant, art history, 2014–15, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Professional experience

  • Archivist, 2018–23, Amalia Mesa-Baines’ personal collection
  • Assistant curator, 2022, Strange Weather, Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Santa Cruz Museum of Modern Art, Santa Cruz, CA
  • Assistant curator, 2015–16, Encircling the World, A Century of Style, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
  • Curatorial fellow, 2015 Massachusetts College of Art and Design 2016 Selections, Seeing the Elephant, and Looking In/Looking Out, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
  • Co-curator, 2015, Snapshots: 15 Takes on an Exhibition, Koppelman Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • UCSC Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2023
  • UCSC Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development program, 2018
  • Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence Award, UCSC, 2017
  • Gulnar Bosch student Travel Assistant Grant, Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), 2017
  • Regent's Fellowship, UCSC, 2016–17
  • Contemporary Art Curatorial Fellow, MassArt Bakalar & Paine Gallery, 2015–16
  • Art History Graduate Scholarship, Tufts University, 2013–14

Publications and presentations

Conferences and symposiums

  • "Politics of Desire: Migrant Movement in the U.S.-Mexico Border," presented at Transnational Art and Politics: Landscapes of Displacement, College Art Association (CAA) Conference, 2023.
  • "Embroidering Politics: Maya Cosmologies Influence in "Zapantera Negra," presented at Down to Earth: Womxn Artists and Ecological Practices in Latin America, College Art Association (CAA) Conference, 2021.
  • "Thresholds 48: Kin 'Get Together,'" presented at MIT School of Architecture + Planning, 2020.
  • "Veteranas and Rucas: Guadalupe Rosales's Chicana Archive," presented at Latinx Archives: Art, Counterhistories, and Critical Speculation, College Art Association (CAA) Conference, 2020.
  • "From Public Sphere to Public Space: Patssi Valdez's Corporeal Manifestation of the Virgen de Guadalupe," presented at Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas Symposium, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, 2019.
  • "Embodiment in Patssi Valdez's Virgen de Guadalupe," presented at Sensing Difference: New Artistic Approaches to Embodied Knowledge, Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), 2017.

Moderator

  • "Traction Art Talk: Delilah Montoya," The Institute of Arts and Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 2021.

Invited lectures

  • "Zapatista Embroideries in Zapantera Negra," presented at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2023.
  • "Contemporary Chicanx and Latinx Art," presented at HAVC 47, 2023.
  • "Delilah Montoya's Sed: A Trail of Thirst," presented at 188M, 2022.
  • "Autonomous Visual Culture in Contemporary Chicanx Art," presented at HAVC 160A, 2021
  • "Land as Resistance: Human/Non-Human Relationships in The Space in Between and Zapantera Negra," presented at HAVC 142, 2020.
  • "Asco," presented at LALS 133, 2019.
  • "Contemporary Chicanx Art and the Borderlands," presented at HAVC 140D, 2019.
  • "Feminist Performance Art," presented at HAVC 46, 2018.
  • "The Chicano Movement and Beyond," presented at HAVC 46, 2018.
  • "The Black Panthers: A Revolutionary Art," presented at HAVC 46, 2018.
  • "Photography and the City," presented at HAVC 45, 2018.
  • "Sovereignty and the Zapatistas: A Visual Language of Indigenous Treece, C.V., 3 of 3, Resistance," presented at HAVC 141K, 2017.
  • "Cubism," presented at HAVC 141B, 2017.
  • "New York Modernism," presented at HAVC 141B, 2017.
  • "New Realists," presented at HAVC 141B, 2017.